Damnit, I think blogger hosed me again. Sorry for the lost links.
"We might not know exactly what happened on this battlefield in Denmark, 2,000 years ago. But one thing is certain: It was violent… In a new study, archaeologists present their collective findings for one of the most spectacular archaeological excavations on Danish soil at Alken Enge wetland, and it makes for horrific reading." (Grokked from Warren Ellis)
"A Roscoe 9-year-old is still in critical condition after he was accidentally shot by someone trying to kill a rattlesnake in Fisher County Saturday… Covington was staying with a friend when the incident occurred. Family members say the adult responsible thought the gun was unloaded." Were they trying to use the gun as a hammer? How else could you kill a snake with an unloaded gun? Repeat after me, always treat a gun as if it were loaded. (Grokked from Cherie Priest)
"Tick paralysis is caused by female ticks on the verge of laying eggs. After the tick eats a blood meal and is engorged, it secretes a neurotoxin into the host, according to the American Lyme disease Foundation." It's tick season, folks.
"ECGs use electrodes to measure the electrical activity of the heart and can identify irregular rhythms. Despite years of recommendations against routine ECGs, data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics indicate the test is done as part of about 4 percent of routine exams. In 2015, the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey found that about 40 million ECGs were performed in doctors' offices." Everybody is different, some "abnormal" rhythms are in fact normal (they just don't conform to the median). Same thing with CT and X-Ray. We aren't perfect specimens (okay, you are but the rest of us aren't). Lots of things that "look bad" are actually perfectly normal (some are benign, some should require monitoring).
"The Andover man’s emergency call put the district’s new heart attack protocol to the test that day. Rather than stopping at UH Geneva for transfer to a Cleveland hospital — and risk traffic delays and massive cardiac damage — they were instead headed straight to University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, which had gained special privilege to treat heart attack patients." Beams with pride.
"A long time ago, obesity was often used as a shorthand for wealth, but over the decades obesity has become more and more correlated with poverty, both in culture and science (while wealth is increasingly correlated with being slim)… The trend is accelerating." Cheap calories y'all. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
"Tipped workers in the city currently receive a base wage of just $3.33 an hour… Initiative 77 would raise those workers’ minimum wage gradually, so that it matches the city’s minimum wage by 2026… Bartenders and servers who spoke to ThinkProgress said they support the ballot measure because they want to have a more consistent income and feel less susceptible to putting up with harassment. But there’s a lot of misinformation out there." But they spoke only on the condition on anonymity because they feared retaliation. (Grokked from Lisa Morton)
"Despite any tariffs, Canada remains the second-biggest foreign market for U.S. dairy products — it bought $792 million in U.S. cheese, milk protein isolates, butter, whey and other milk derivatives last year, according to the U.S. Dairy Export Council… Canada exported much less — $149 million — to the U.S., according to the Canadian government… For those keeping score… that’s roughly a 5:1 trade imbalance in favor of the U.S." Damn facts getting in the way again.
"While waiting at a resort in Singapore for his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Trump tweeted that Larry Kudlow, his chief economic adviser, has suffered a heart attack back in the U.S." Good thing he has government sponsored healthcare. Moral of the story, don't fuck with Trudeau. Yeah, sometimes I link to things just because I have a smartassed remark.
The movie Trump played for Kim.
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